#358: New Zealand v USA recap (the second leg)

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Sports, Usmnt, Men's National Team, American Soccer, Us Soccer, Soccer, Mls, U17 National Team, U20 National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A better performance from the USWNT, the real test comes in February. Greg and Belz talk it through, including that lovely sequence for Hatch's opener.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US Soccer.
0:07.0	The US women beat New Zealand 5-0 late on Friday, US time and it was a little better,
0:20.0	I thought, than the first leg of the New Zealand series?
0:23.2	What do you think, Greg?
0:24.8	Yeah, I thought it was much better.
0:26.8	Lots of encouraging signs, which there need to be.
0:29.2	Because as we said, this is a weekend New Zealand team, very limited on who they could call up, and maybe
0:36.9	we didn't talk about this enough about our opponent.
0:39.1	New Zealand isn't that good of a team to begin with.
0:42.2	We played them last year, full strength in the She Belize Cup so that was like their real team and we wax them 5-0 in that as well and they aren't necessarily any better I think in their last 14 games. They have like six goals. They don't threaten. They're not, I don't
0:56.6	think they're particularly well coached. Their coach is a former US
1:00.9	staffer, Jika Klimkova.
1:04.4	She had our U-20s in the 2018 U-20 World Cup.
1:09.2	And that was when, I don't know if you remember this,
1:11.5	but when we were watching that game I was very I was
1:13.7	legitimately worried about the future of the program but I think mostly have a memory of that
1:19.5	they were probably just poorly coached it It was a team with Germa, Jaylin Howell was on that team,
1:26.4	actually Sanchez and Sophia Smith, Savannah DeMalo, like this was a, there was a lot of young
1:30.7	attacking power on that team and we were totally like we just
1:34.8	looked like we had no idea how to play soccer.
1:37.1	So maybe those players have all taken huge steps forward in the last several years, but I mean,
1:44.5	Kinkova was very unimpressive to me at the time,
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